Bøger af Nikki Gemmell

En kvinde forsvinder og efterlader sig en ophidsende dagbog, der fortæller om seksuel opvågnen. Alle, der kendte hende, så hende som den gode hustru: glad, trofast, tilfreds. Men dagbogen afslører en hemmelig side af en kvinde, der har opdaget, at hendes nye ægteskab har sine egne hemmeligheder. Hun begynder at udforske nye sider af sig selv og oplever for første gang den berusende kraft ved at vide, hvad hun vil, og hvordan hun opnår det. The Bride Stripped Bare giver en rystende indsigt i kærlighed og sex, og vil få læseren til at stille spørgsmål ved, om det er muligt fuldstændig at kende et andet menneske. FORFATTEREN Nikki Gemmell (født 1966) er en australsk forfatter bosat i London. Hendes første roman The Bride Stripped Bare blev en international bestseller. Hendes skrivestil har gjort hende populær i især Frankrig, hvor hun er blevet beskrevet som ”en kvindelig Jack Kerouac”. I 2007 udnævnte det litterære franske magasin Lire hende til en af verdens 50 vigtigste forfattere, som kan få størst indflydelse på litteraturen i det 21. århundrede. Alle hendes bøger er blevet nomineret til årets bedste australske romaner af læserne af Australian Book Review. ANMELDELSER Som kunstnerisk striptease fanger The Bride Stripped Bare os med sin rå stil (San Francisco Chronicle) Kunstnerisk. Snu og indsigtsfuld. Denne usædvanlige men underligt fængslende roman byder på en intim fortælling om forandring og selvindsigt (Publishers Weekly) Vidunderlig sensuel. En skarpsindig beskrivelse af et moderne ægteskab (Independent) Ganske enkelt for smuk. En hypnotiserende og foruroligende roman, der fortjener at blive læst igen og igen (Vogue Australien) Uforskammet og liderlig sex lige der, hvor du vil have det (Elle) Uophørlig, elegant og mørk. Jeg tror på, at alle kvinder bør blive gift mindst én gang og læse denne roman to gange (Suzanne Finnamore, forfatter til Otherwise engaged)

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply personal, profoundly intimate reflection on love and female creativity, and what happens when the two collide in a man's world.Dissolve is a conversation. A conversation with the young women of Gemmell's teenage daughter's generation, and of course with men.'Reading this memoir is like therapy for the soul' ArtsHub'one of the most enriching, yet debilitating reads I've experienced... tremendous, moving writing' Jessie Tu, Women's Agenda'Nikki Gemmell wrote this book for me, and I suspect there will be many women who feel the same way... Each page is imbued with startling self-awareness and profound wisdom... Vulnerable, honest and raw' Better Reading

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage--and alongside it.Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker's wife. When Cliff's horrible skiing accident shifts the balance of their relationship, Connie becomes a willing submissive to her husband's every desire. Cliff is eager to explore new, and troubling, avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads. While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, Cliff's dark desires soon consume her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone--to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.But it is also this act that awakens Connie from the numbness that has taken over her life. And when she encounters someone new in the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she discovers the thrill of true intimacy . . . and the price of risking everything for it.The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brings erotic writing into the twenty-first century. In I Take You she looks to the classic Lady Chatterley's Lover for inspiration, reimagining D. H. Lawrence's celebrated tale as a brutally honest and deeply sensual modern love story.

From the author of the international bestseller The Bride Stripped Bare comes the raw and resonant story of a middle-aged wife and mother who attempts to reclaim her lost sense of self by exploring the memory of an old love affair, the consequences of which have remained unresolved for years. Nikki Gemmell is "one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time" (Time Out New York), and With My Body is a unique and captivating novel. Poetic and boldly, unabashedly sensual, Gemmell's gorgeous writing and explosive content evoke the seductive power of The Secret Life Of Catherine M, Damage, and The Story of O, but this instant classic bears a modern insight into present-day sexuality and that could only come from the intimate and invigorating voice of Nikki Gemmell.

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'Gemmell has written a powerful novel that does not flinch from strong emotion or description to provide a luminous insight into the fringes of Australian society and the long, dark night of the soul' The Times 'The desolate landscapes of central Australia, eerily beautiful and cruel, are superbly evoked in Cleave. Nikki Gemmell's heroine, Snip Freeman, is a painter who, as a child, lived in the centre until her father Bud deserted her . . . Prompted by her grandmother, she heads west from Sydney with a stranger, Dave, in search of Bud, her own childhood and, perhaps, a new life. Gemmell writes brilliantly about the journey, about Snip's insistence that she feels lust, not love, for Dave, and later about Snip and her father marooned in the desert, both hallucinating as they run out of water and hope' Sunday Time s

From the author of the bestsellers The Bride Stripped Bare and With My Body, a new twist on a classic tale of passion.Set in Notting Hill, this modern-day version of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' sees a banker's wife awaken to the erotic possibilities of her life.Connie Carven is devoted to her husband, who is left paralysed from the waist down following an accident. But this is no less than he demands - in fact, he insists on Connie's utter subservience to his every desire. But unable to physically satisfy his wife, Clifford is eager to explore new, strange and troubling avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads.And yet Connie is bursting with unfulfilled desire. Unfulfilled, that is, until the communal gardener enters, and their affair accelerates to its tense, shuddering conclusion.

For fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY; the author of sensational bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE returns with a powerful tale of marriage and desire.Smothered by marriage and family, a woman feels life slipping through her fingers. She becomes preoccupied with thoughts of her early education in love at the hands of Tol, a man like no other she has known. Memories of the affair Tols appetite for her pleasure and her trusting desire consume her. But the mysterious end to their intimacy left her confused and unwilling to love again with all her heart. Discovering the woman she once was is an erotic journey back into the past and an exploration of reawakened passion.

Australia's bravest and most honest writer explores the devastating aftermath of her elderly mother's decision to end her own life. Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever in October 2015 when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock and devastation came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. No note was left, so the questions that Elayn's death raised were endless. Was the decision an act of independence or the very opposite? Was it a desperate act driven by hopelessness and anger, or was her euthanasia a reasoned act of empowerment?After is the story of Elayn Gemmell - and the often difficult, prickly relationship between mothers and daughters, and how that changes over time. As anguished as it truthful, as powerful as it is profound, After is about life, death, elderly parents, mothers and daughters, hurt and healing, and about how little, sometimes, we know the ones we love the most.A deeply intimate, fiercely beautiful, blazingly bold and important book.'A bold work of nonfiction ... a work that will raise questions and start conversations' Bookseller + Publisher 'Compassion, humanity and love shines through every page' Caroline Overington

Handling En hustru og mor til tre børn har alt, en kvinde kan ønske sig. Alligevel er hun følelsesmæssigt tom indeni. Låst i dagligdagens rutiner formår hun ikke at udvise den ærlighed og lidenskab, der engang drev hende. Selv ikke hendes mand, som hun elsker, har for alvor fundet frem til hendes inderste. Kun én person er kommet i nærheden af det. I desperation vender hun tilbage til mindet om en gammel kærlighedsaffære, hvis konsekvenser, hun aldrig helt har forstået. I gensynet med sin fortid begynder hun en ophidsende rejse ind i sit sexliv. Om forfatteren Nikki Gemmell (født 1966) er en australsk forfatter bosat i London, som er verdenskendt for sine erotiske romaner. Hendes litterære gennembrud, Den nøgne brud, blev en international bestseller. Nikki Gemmell blev i 2007 til en af verdens 50 vigtigste forfattere af det franske litterære magasin Lire. Hendes bøger er alle blevet nomineret til årets bedste australske roman af læserne af Australian Book Review. Det siger pressen -Gemmell skriver strålende.--The Sunday Times -Forbløffende smukt. -The Daily Telegraph -Gemmells slående og ligefremme stil er vidunderligt effektiv.-Publishers Weekly